To think you should be able to sue your mum if you weren't breastfed

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and have suffered health consequences that could have been prevented by breastfeeding?

Anything that you can buy is "marketed"

I have just enjoyed a lovely Kellogs All Bran Chocolate Flavour Breakfast Bar.

This was ruthlessly "marketed" to me by Morrisons and their half price offer.

Ergo it is EVIL.

I should sue.

Loads of the bf accessory stuff is marketed. JoJoMamanBebe are trying to entice my, by means of their EVIL catalogue, to purchase some probably not entirely necessary special "nursing" tops and dresses.

Get back to your knitting you bloody hippy.

What makes ffing easier? Its a pain in the arse!

Yes maybe when they first made formula its was a last resort but its alot different now. Its not as nutritious as bfing but it still has alot of damn good stuff in it.

Alot of women choose to have elcs 1st time rouund. Its just none of your god damn business and you have no right to judge them for it. Seriously wtf does it matter to you?

As i said earlier you knew you would get this kind of response so dont start acting all innocent. Imo you have started this thread to start an argument and make people feel bad and that just makes you a sorry excuse for a human being.

Ricochet. I am, hand on heart totally and utterly at peace with my failure to bf DS1 and my decision to ff DS2

BUT

Please spare a thought in you lovely empathetic brain for the thousands of women, who are right now reading your badly thought-out/malicious thread and it is making them feel bad.

in the words of my GP when I nearly succumbed to PND over my total devastation, when I 'failed' to breast feed (due to many, many medical complications):

"formula is an entirely medically appropriate, rigorously tested and safe method of feeding your child. The sickest, earliest, tiniest babies lives are saved by this very thing, so why on earth would you cause both you and your baby to suffer by insisting on not using it?"

and for anyone feeling crap because of this thread, please go and read the Fearless Formula Feeders blog, especially the friday submissions. My story is in there. In many, many cases breast is not best.

OP is simply bored enough to pick a fight, and yes, I am feeding the troll sigh but having been the mum who felt like an evil, useless failure due to ignorant and judgemental idiots like the OP I feel it's important to be among the voices of reason.

fearless formula feeder

This must be the stupidist thread i have ever came across. Baby milk is just as good as breastmilk lots of people that are still alive are proof of that. My four children are proof of that- yeah i tried bf couldnt get a decent milk supply and it hurt like hell and the babies werent getting enough milk! Guess what they are 9 yrs old, 6 yrs old, 3 yrs old and 19months & uv guessed it all HEALTHY!!! People like op make me and put pressure on the likes of us that cant manage bf. Its not the end of the world if u cant bf thats why they sell baby milk

Unbelievable. What a silly question. Get over it.

You would like to think it was a wind up, but nothing on MN surprises me any more!

choc - I really like this (regarding deciding to FF your 2nd child) from your link:

"please hear me when I say this: It's okay to not try again. It's okay to decide enough is enough. It's okay to be self-protective, because by protecting yourself, you are protecting your ability to mother and mother well.

Success is a baby who is sufficiently fed by a mother (or father) who is emotionally and physically healthy. Whatever you need to do to get yourself to that point, do it." It really chimes with how I felt

I suspect the OP may be a serial name changer so I am taking this provocative thread to be intended to alarm and excite the masses!

Pumpkinsweetie "formula is as good as breastmilk"?!

How long is this going to go on for?

I really thought this was going to be a joke thread.

If I can't sue my mum for being a chain-smoking, depressive, suicidal alcoholic then no one is suing their mum for not breastfeeding them. Although she did bf us.

Wouldn't anyway. She did her best.

If we are lucky this thread will still be raging in time for Mothers' Day. How nice.

Probably as long as you keep posting

"Baby milk is just as good as breast milk"

That is just as ignorant as the OP.

Formula isn't as good as breast milk. It is an adequate alternative but it isn't as good.

Right so if I stop posting this ridiculous thread will die Ricochet? Deal.

That is the most incredible opener I've heard ever. I thought it would be a joke but you are serious?!

YABU! Who can definitively prove what BF can and can't do. There was a post on here by a BFer saying they 'could count on one hand the number of times their DC had been on antibiotics' - so can I and my son had breastmilk for 10 days before I quit on the edge of a breakdown. My other friend is stil BFing her 9mth old (and sincerely good for her) and so far he's been on ABs about 6 times for chest infections.

To OP -WHAT???!!!

Sorry - I know we want this thread to die, but really!

People are taking this thread seriously because it gives them a god given opportunity to disgorge all their feelings of bitternesss and sense of victimhood, while at the same time being able to be thoroughly self-righteous.

The OP's suggestion is silly and insensitive.

However - doesn't take away from the basic scandal of a society which considers itself child-centred where the majority of babies are denied access to the safest and best form of nutrition for more than the first few weeks.

Oh - and that many people are making collosal amounts of money out of this state of affairs.

I would like to see all formula marketing banned. Instead the govt. could produce a single leaflet which sets out in plain language what the significant features of a product are (if any).

Also, you sound like you are disgorging yourself. Fine. But don't deny other people the right to do so.

Shagmundfreud, lots of people on here have expressed the opinion that formula marketing should be banned, that will never happen, stopping the marketing and promotion of products aimed at newborns is as good as it's gonna get. I don't really have an opinion on it. I don't think the issue is down to marketing, I think people formula feed because they want to and/or because they find bfing difficult.

I think it is important to continue to promote bfing as the best option, I think it is also important that bfing support is available to everyone who needs it. I had 5 years between my children, the support first time was almost non-existent, with my second child people were falling over themselves to help me bf, I was very impressed with the level of support available.

Ensuring there are proper support networks everywhere should result in mothers bfing for longer but I don't think that bfing rates will drastically improve. As long as women are making an informed choice and have had adequate support, I'm happy.